Re: VMs: some thoughts/observations

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Jim Gillogly wrote:

> > PS: FWIW, what's the biggest fake you know of? (Please nobody say
> > "WMD"). :-p
> 
> Dang!  I was just going to say that!

	Me three!

> - The Book of Mormon and associated backup materials including the Pearl
>    of Great Price and the Doctrine and Covenants.
> 
> - The "inner sanctum" writings of Scientology, including the Xenu (Xemu?)
>    revelations.

	I concur.  These have been much more influential. 
Consider especially the conclusive evidence against the
Pearl of Great Price.

> Each represents a greater expenditure of effort than the Voynich, 

	I don't agree!  How hard is it to look at some rocks
in a sock and compose a novel out loud in pseudo-King
James language?  That hardly takes Homer or Milton.  

> and (to
> be charitable) because of the contradictory theology at least one of the
> authors (Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard) knew he was perpetrating a fraud.

	Hard to say.  Perhaps to start with, but they might
have come to believe it themselves.  Not everyone
thinks like we do, remember?   This sort of thing makes
me wonder about other sacred scriptures. 

	The Donation of Constantine was quite influential for
a long time.  

Dennis
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